March 2019 Moms
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What have you been cooking lately? What recipe recommendations do you want? What do you want to try? What's your best recipe that always gets compliments? What's your quick get-dinner-on-the-table go-to?
Or anything else cooking!
Or anything else cooking!
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One of my favorite quick meals is beef stroganoff. Brown ground beef with onion in a skillet. Dump in a can of cream of mushroom soup and enough milk to thin it out a bit. Add sour cream or cream cheese to creamy it up and beef bullion and salt and pepper to taste. Add mushrooms if you want. Heat through and serve over cooked noodles, rice or quinoa.
Does anyone have a bomb Pad Thai recipe? I love it at restaurants so much, but I have yet to find a good homemade recipe that replicates what I get at a restaurant. I've tried this one https://www.cookingclassy.com/chicken-pad-thai/ and also one from Taste of Home, just can't remember which. I liked both fine, but H wasn't as big on them. They also both tended to be dry.
One of my favorite pressure cooker meals is carnitas. I will buy pork shoulder/butt when it's on sale, cut them up in chunks, and put them in freezer bags. When I go to cook, I dump the bag in the pressure cooker and season with oregano, salt, pepper, cumin, and garlic. I will also have an orange (or a couple of cuties if that's what I have), squeeze the juice over the pork, and leave the oranges in the pot along with a couple of bouillon cubes. For my cooking liquid, I use either orange juice or diet orange soda (DH eats low carb so I would do this to limit the sugar). I cook at high pressure for about an hour from frozen and then crisp up the meat under the broiler or in the air fryer for a couple of minutes.
These are so good in tacos or with some lime, onions, cilantro, and avocado.
I also am a big fan of buying a couple of rotisserie chickens at the beginning of the week and using that to create multiple meals. I love cooking, but I'm all about making things easier at this point.
Made southwest egg rolls the other day which is always a favorite of mine (and DS eats them pretty happily too, which considering all the veggies I pack in there, is a win). And the avocado ranch sauce is totally worth making! https://spicygarlic.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/southwest-eggrolls/
Another favorite of ours, and comes together fast, is pad Thai (although it’s more realistically a peanut noodle). https://spicygarlic.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/my-take-on-pad-thai/
And now I’m hungry and ready for dinner!
I make this all the time in the fall and winter, and making it again tonight
I just made this and I’ll be lucky if it lasts till tomorrow. Yum! Anyone else with apple recipes? I have a bunch to use up
and crockpot apple sauce is always a delicious use of apples!
Hot water bath canning is super simple.
https://www.freshpreserving.com/applesauce-recipe-|-how-to-make-applesauce---ball-fresh-preserving-br1126.html
I like a lot of healthier or vegetarian recipes. I love this one:
https://pinchofyum.com/roasted-tomatoes-with-goat-cheese-polenta
Not everyone's thing, but this one was so low carb/ cal, deliciously cheesy and much better than I thought it would be (I should really make it again soon...):
https://wonkywonderful.com/easy-stuffed-cabbage-casserole/
For sweeter things, I made this not too long ago because I had some strawberries going bad. It was soooo good!
https://pinchofyum.com/strawberry-oat-crumble-bars
I am vegetarian and I love recipes from Minimalist Baker because they are quick and easy. We belong to a CSA so most of my meals have to be planned around the vegetables we get from the farm. It can be overwhelming sometimes to figure out what to do with some items, but it's been 3 years since we joined and I'm slowly getting better at not letting much go to waste.
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/penne-with-butternut-squash-and-goat-cheese-recipe-2118590